WINNER FROM THE 2015 BRAM STOKER Prize FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, similar to Stephen King’s The Glowing, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill Home, and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist.

The lives of the Barretts, a standard suburban New Britain family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie starts to display signs of acute schizophrenia.

To her parents’ despair, the doctors are about A Head Full of Ghosts struggling to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves right into a home of horrors, they reluctantly consider an area Catholic priest for help. Dad Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he feels the vulnerable teen is the victim of demonic possession. He also connections a production company that is wanting to record the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s dad, unemployed for greater than a calendar year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to become filmed, and quickly find themselves the unwitting celebrities of The Ownership, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show as well as the surprising incidents it catches end up being the stuff of metropolitan legend.

Fifteen years later on, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful recollections that clash with what was broadcast on tv begin to surface-and a mind-bending story of psychological horror is certainly unleashed, raising vexing questions about storage and reality, research and religious beliefs, and the very nature of wicked.